Word: ithaca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rowing on the Charles for their last practice here before leaving for Ithaca, the Harvard first and second eights had a light workout early yesterday afternoon. The two boats paddled down the river to the Basin at a stroke of 20, and rowed back again at a rate of about 28 strokes to the minute...
...Harvard crews the first and Jayvee eights, leave today for Ithaca, to row Saturday in the triangular regatta there with Cornell and Syracuse. Several changes have been effected in the seatings of the boats, the most recent of them announced yesterday by Coach Charles Whiteside. T. E. Armstrong '32, who has been rowing at number four in the Jayvees, has replaced Captain J. E. Lawrence '31 as stroke. Lawrence has gone to the number two seat in the third eight...
Lansing, Mich. Sirs: True, Stanford once was proud to be "Cornell of the West." Forty years back, giants like Andrew D. White, Goldwin Smith, pushed the newborn Ithaca University ahead of older American colleges. Coeducational, nonsectarian, first to recognize the sciences and technologies, build laboratories, give "practical" courses, Cornell soon became model for the colleges then being founded in the West, among them Minnesota, Stanford. Then lusty young Cornell seemed to be eclipsing Harvard, Yale. Cornell students came from all over the world to sit at the feet of James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz, many another great one. Cornell scientists...
...benevolent alumni could be persuaded to give a few hundred thousand to endow badly needed chairs at Ithaca, we should have "a handful of thinking men" who might do something to make the various departments at Cornell foremost in their fields...
...defeating the Boston Lacrosse Club, 6 to 1, and Boston University, 7 to 0. Although one cannot yet make comparative scores for the two teams, Brown is slightly favored, especially since Harvard was defeated in its only official game so far this season, against Cornell, 4 to 3, at Ithaca last Saturday. A week earlier, however, the Crimson downed an alumni group, 4 to 1, and during vacation, regular practice was held with the Syracuse University squad, during which two unofficial games were played...